♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (upbeat music) - Good morning, boys and girls.

Welcome back.

My name is Mrs. Vang, and I'm so excited to have you join me so that we can become amazing readers and writers.

I have a great book to share with you guys, and actually this book was recommended by a good friend who wrote in to the studio.

So this is a book recommended by Quintin, and he wanted me to share this book with all of you.

This is a book called, "I Dissent," and it's a book about the late Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Well, the whole title's, "I Dissent, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark."

So this is a great book because Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent her whole life fighting for injustice, for equality, and just helping people with unfair treatment.

So if you wanna read all about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, make sure you are checking out this book on Sora or at your County library.

So thank you, Quintin, for recommending this book so I can share with everyone.

Now, are you guys ready to get started?

Awesome.

So let's start by training our ears, and that's right, we need to train our ears so that we can get that going, so that we are ready for our reading and spelling today.

So we're gonna start off with a fun game called, "Working with Alliterations."

And alliterations are just sentences or phrases that have the same beginning sound.

So your job is to listen to my sentence and tell me what sound you hear at the beginning of each word in my sentence.

Are you ready?

Okay.

Here's my sentence.

Sam sells soup.

What sound did you hear?

Awesome.

They all start with the "s" sound.

Good job.

Now what about this sentence?

Ready?

Lucy likes lemon.

What sound did you hear?

"l." Good job.

And the last one.

Okay, listen carefully.

Dave does a dance.

What sound did you hear?

Good.

The "d" sound.

Did you like that?

Aren't those fun?

Remember, those are called alliteration.

Awesome job.

Let's see if you can think of your own alliterations.

Try to write them out and share them with your family, boys and girls.

Now, now that our ears are trained, let's go into our focus sound of the week.

Now this week, we are focusing on the long "u" sound, or the long vowel sound "u."

Now, and we're using the cube card.

So look at the different ways we can spell the "u" sound.

"u" can be spelled "u" by itself, "u" consonant silent "e", and we've learned that already but we're gonna review with all the different other spelling patterns this week, "eu" and "ue."

Now, do you see those little lines in front of the "ew" and the "ue"?

That just means that there's a consonant in there before the "ew" or the "ue", meaning these spelling patterns will never be in the front.

If they do, they will make a different sound.

So those are little clues for you.

So now, let's practice reading some words with the "u" sound.

So help me blend these letters that you see on my chart here.

Ready?

This says, "c u te, cute."

Good job.

That silent "e", it's job is to make the "u" say "u."

That's all it's ob is, and we don't say it.

Now, remember that's right.

That "ew" says "u."

So let's practice.

Ready?

Blend it with me.

n ew.

What's my word?

New.

Good job.

Like, "My sister bought a new car."

New.

Awesome.

Did you guys get any new clothes for Christmas?

Some of you.

Good.

Now, let's practice spelling some words or building words.

Ready?

What if I wanted to build the word music?

Music.

Segment it for me.

Ready?

M u sic.

And notice something, music has ... good, some of you guys heard it, music has two syllables.

Mu-sic.

So let's blend, not blend, we're gonna build a word.

Let's build a word, syllable by syllable.

The first syllable is mu.

So what's that?

Mu.

So let's sound that out.

M u.

So that's the "m" and the "u" by itself.

Now, look at all the different ways we can spell it.

Which way would make sense?

We can try them all, but I heard some of you.

Good, you were saying, "It's just a u."

You're right.

U, mu.

Now, the next syllable is sic.

Mu-sic.

So let's sound that out.

s ic.

s ic.

Okay, what's that first sound?

"s." Good.

The next sound is "i."

Good.

And the "c" is actually the c. Good job.

music.

So you see how I noticed that there was two syllables, so I broke up my word into two syllables, and that way I can sound out each syllable and spell it.

Don't forget, that's a great strategy to use when you are spelling or building words, when you are writing.

Music is spelled M-U-S-I-C. music.

How did you do?

Awesome job.

Now, let's practice reading some words with the long "u" spelling pattern.

Are you ready?

Let me grab my reading finger so that it can help us read.

Okay.

Ready?

mute.

Good.

clues.

new.

stew.

menu.

use.

hue.

duty.

wild.

Good.

These are now review words.

Okay.

So review sounds with spelling patterns that we've already learned already just to get our brain warmed up.

Ready?

wild.

train.

goal.

cheek.

How did you do?

Awesome job.

Let's practice reading our sentence with our long "u" words in them.

Ready?

The plane uses a lot of fuel.

How did you do?

Awesome job.

Now, get ready for a sentence dictation, boys and girls.

This is where I'm gonna say a sentence.

I want you to write it down, and then we'll check our sentence to see how you did.

Ready?

Here's my sentence, I hear music playing outside.

How many words?

Five words.

Say it with me.

I hear music playing outside.

And you're right, I used that word music that we just spelled.

So hopefully, you guys can spell it correctly.

Let me grab my pen really quick.

Ready?

Are you ready?

Okay, check your sentence with me.

First word was, "I."

Good.

Don't forget to start with a capital, and I by itself is a pronoun, so it does need a capital.

I hear, "h." Ear, and that's a tricky sound, the E-A-R.

It says the "ear" sound.

We're gonna learn that later.

I hear music.

Good.

We just spelled it, music.

I hear music playing.

Play, it's a sight word.

Adding the "ing," meaning it's happening right now.

Good job.

I hear music playing outside.

And don't forget, outside is a compound word.

Put it together.

Don't forget to add in your period.

Let's read my sentence.

Ready?

I hear music playing outside.

How did you do?

Thumbs up?

Awesome.

Good job, boys and girls.

Okay, so now that we've practiced our sound of the week, let's go and practice our high frequency words.

So let me move this around.

Now remember, all week we are going to be learning 10 words, but each day we're gonna focus on two.

So the two words that we're gonna focus on today is the word come and country.

Help me read it.

come.

country.

Help me spell it.

So, let's read it first.

come.

And, let's spell the word, come.

Ready?

C-O-M-E, come.

Good job.

And here's my word ... uh, boys and girls, I made a mistake.

That's not our word today.

That's our word tomorrow.

Let's go back a little bit.

Let's rewind.

Okay.

Our two words for today, climbed and began.

Climbed and began.

Help me read it.

Climbed.

Good job.

Help me spell it.

C-L-I-M-B-E-D, climbed.

And remember, when you add that "ed," it means it already happened.

Good job.

climbed.

Our next word is began.

Help me read it.

began.

Let's spell it.

B-E-G-A-N, began.

There you go.

So our two words today, climbed and began.

Now I'm gonna give you two sentences.

I want you to help me read the sentences and see if you can help me figure out which word would go into the sentence, so that it'll make sense.

Ready?

The first sentence says, "Nan -_-_-_-_-_ to sing."

And the second sentence says, "They -_-_-_-_-_-_ to the top of the hill."

Now, can you use that context clues to help you?

You're right.

So let's look at the second sentence.

If they did something to the top of the hill, what do they do?

Do they began, or they climbed?

Good, climb.

I hear you.

They climbed to the top of the hill.

Yes, that makes sense.

And, Nan began to sing.

Makes sense.

Good job, boys and girls.

So, our two words for today, began and climbed.

So let's practice reading all of our high frequency words.

And we'll start with the two that we learned today.

Ready?

began.

climbed.

come.

country.

didn't.

give.

live.

turned.

America and beautiful.

Now, let's go into our structural analysis.

And this week, we're gonna be focusing on comparative endings.

So we're gonna be working with adding the "er" and the "est" to the end of a word.

Now, if I add "er," to an adjective, it means I'm comparing two nouns.

So here's my example.

David is taller than John.

You see it?

There's just two nouns.

So I'm just adding the "er."

Now adding the "est," I'm gonna add those two adjectives when I'm comparing more than two nouns.

Okay.

So if you look at my picture here, it says, "Alex is the tallest in the class," because there's more than two nouns in my sentence.

That's why I'm using the "est."

So "er" says, er.

"est" says est.

Help me say that.

er and est.

Good job.

So I'm gonna quickly go through our words.

So if I have cold, if I add the "er," it just becomes colder.

Good.

cold.

Add the "est," coldest.

Good.

quick.

Add the "er," quicker.

quick.

Add the "est," quickest.

Slow becomes slower with the "er," and slow with the "est" becomes slowest.

How did you do?

I know I did that really fast.

Awesome job, boys and girls.

You guys are doing such a good job.

We will continue learning all of our learnings tomorrow.

So don't forget to come back and join us.

And I'm gonna leave it with our positive message of the day.

And, because my book, today was about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I'm gonna leave you with one of her quotes that says, "You can disagree, without being disagreeable."

So don't forget boys and girls if things gets too hard, don't give up.

Tell yourself, "I can do it."

And I hope to see you back here with me tomorrow, so that we can continue learning about the short "u", about our comparative endings, and making our brains strong.

See you tomorrow.

Bye-bye (upbeat music) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (upbeat music)